http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/anarchist/ en-us Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047505/posts Last time we were in Westminster a passerby couldn’t let the moonbats go unopposed. He had driven by on one of his rare Saturday’s off from work and was disgusted at the moonbats’ signs. He went home, wrote out a quick sign and came to protest the protesters. (BELOW) is the result. Apparently the moonbats believe that only they do not have to obey the laws. They were so upset over the “Clueless Morons” sign that they complained to the Westminster police. I can hear them whining now, “They they they werrrr on ourrrr side botherrrring us”. An officer showed... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047505/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047373/posts Waldo - Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada descended on a strip of private land this week in this Sheboygan County village for four days of workshops, including some focused on strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions. The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook." The group also has drawn the attention of FBI agents trying to infiltrate the protest movement. At... Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047373/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:11:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930552/posts <p>The magnetic MC, performing her second Chicago show in three nights in support of her excellent sophomore album, "Kala," turned her 90-minute performance into a fiery political statement. "We have no choice but to destroy this country," announced a videotaped talking head at the onset of the concert.</p> Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930552/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:01:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922415/posts TUUSULA, Finland (AP) - An 18-year-old student opened fire in a Finnish high school Wednesday, killing seven students and the principal before turning the gun on himself, police said. The teenager, who was not identified, shot himself in the head but survived and was taken to a hospital in ``extremely critical condition,'' police spokesman Tero Haapala said. The attack at Jokela High School in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki, shocked the Nordic nation, where gun ownership is fairly common by European standards but deadly shootings are rare. ... Police said at a news conference after the... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922415/posts#comment Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916780/posts A teenager has been jailed after an Old Bailey jury found him guilty of having a terrorism-related explosives manual. Abdul Patel, 18, of east London, was said in court to be "ready, willing and able" to help terrorists. Judge Peter Rook sentenced him to six months in a Young Offenders Institution after rejecting mitigation for a suspended sentence. The judge said Patel was guilty of possessing the document - but was not a "radicalised or politicised Islamist". In September, a jury at the Old Bailey found Patel guilty of one charge of possessing a document likely to be useful for... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916780/posts#comment Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:01:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894292/posts I slowly went from one end of The Wall to the other, videotaping all the way. I wanted those who have loved ones named on The Wall to know whether "their" panels were damaged. I also wanted the full extent of the damage to be documented. This is Part 1, showing the damage to the east side of The Wall. It will take me several more hours to get the second video up. Stay tuned... Vietnam Memorial Wall (DC) Defaced Sept 7-8, 2007: Part 1 Eyewitness Video http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894292/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:16:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893742/posts Mrs. Trooprally called me this evening to tell me that she and her husband, as well as Concretebob, saw damage along almost the entire length of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. They found this damage this morning, when they walked through the area before participating in the September 11th Freedom Walk. Concretebob was told by a National Park Service employee that the damage was done on Friday night. There was no police report taken or written about the vandalism, apparently. And the damage was still very much there today. Here are a few of the photos that Mrs. Trooprally took this... Eyewitnesses to the damage, Concretebob, Mr. and Mrs. Trooprally http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893742/posts#comment Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:55:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890693/posts Today on Labor Day, friends and I attended a press conference held by the "RNC Welcoming Committee," an anarchist group promising to disrupt the 2008 convention in St. Paul, MN. About 15 were present, 5 of which were the anarchists. Three reporters arrived and set up their cameras (MPR, WCCO and local cable access). One anarkid handed out a printed release while the spokesgrrl put on her microphone (this part is overheard and paraphrased): Reporter1: What’s your name? SBR: I’m Sandra Brown-Rivers from RNC Welcoming Committee. Reporter1: What’s your title? SBR: I don’t have a title. Reporter1: Can’t we have... FreedomDogs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890693/posts#comment Mon, 3 Sep 2007 23:55:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878482/posts RALEIGH - The living arrangement has a name, The Mayview Collective, which conjures '60s-era images of backyard chickens and overgrown vegetable patches. Living in a duplex with three bedrooms on each side, members of the Collective kick in $325 per month toward rent, utilities and a reserve fund for household expenses. Not long ago, they bought a vacuum cleaner. The back side of the home includes a kitchen where volunteers cook meals for the homeless and a space where more volunteers help people fix their bicycles. Within walking distance of Cameron Village, the people who live here carry a different... News and Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878482/posts#comment Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:51:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841397/posts The "Black Bloc" anarchists are getting twitchy and one can't seem to concentrate on her work - she fired off a Word doc from her work computer, threatening 2007 GOP convention delegates, ICE and Minneapolis police. The Word doc found its way to The Loyal Opposition Blog, who did some digging. I received the following document in English and Spanish, and it’s origin has been subsequently verified using two independent sources: The RNC Welcoming Committee- a group of Twin Cities-based anarchists and anti-authoritarians formed to organize resistance to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul- stands firmly with immigrant... The Loyal Opposition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841397/posts#comment Tue, 29 May 2007 14:36:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832295/posts OTTAWA–The man arrested for allegedly leaking the Conservative government's environmental plan was a temporary employee, a self-described anarchist and drummer in a punk band that sings an angry screed against the Prime Minister and the "rise of the right." The website for the band, the Suicide Pilots, depicts an airplane flying into the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. Those are just a few of the details that emerged yesterday about Jeffrey Monaghan, 27, who was taken away from his Environment Canada workplace in handcuffs Wednesday morning by two RCMP officers. He is under investigation for potential breach of trust, an... The Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832295/posts#comment Sat, 12 May 2007 00:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827569/posts WASHINGTON -- D.C. police officers helped U.S. park police execute a search warrant in Northwest Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. News4's Jackie Bensen reported that possibly as many as 20 guns as well as ammunition, swords, bows, arrows and machetes were seized from a unit of an apartment building in the 5300 block of Eighth Street. Authorities also recovered a replica grenade and what appeared to be a grenade launcher, which does not work. Authorities also recovered literature that may have been anarchist in nature. Park police told News4 that the raid was part of an open investigation that stemmed from... NBC 4 DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827569/posts#comment Thu, 3 May 2007 03:08:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811960/posts NEW HAVEN — Three Yale University students are charged with burning an American flag hanging from the porch of a Chapel Street home early Tuesday in the Wooster Square neighborhood. When detained by police a few blocks away, they allegedly acknowledged it was a "dumb thing to do," according to a police report on the incident. Hyder Akbar Said, 23, Nikolaos Angelopoulos, 19, and Farhad Anklesaria, also 19, were arrested on a range of charges including two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, second-degree arson, breach of peace, and conspiracy to commit second-degree arson. Police listed Hyder’s last... New Haven Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811960/posts#comment Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1811519/posts Videographer and blogger Josh Wolf was released from prison today around 2:30 p.m. Outside jail this afternoon, Wolf said he was looking forward to eating pizza and drinking beer, as well as shaving his beard and changing his clothes. He said it was easy to lose track of the time in prison -- though he did count. (It was 224 or 225 days in all.) Speaking to reporters (including Jim Herron Zamora from the Chronicle), Wolf said he had read 50 books while in custody and wants to set up program so inmates can blog by sending letters to friends... SFGate: NWZCHIK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1811519/posts#comment Tue, 3 Apr 2007 23:50:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803499/posts Discovered by a reader at Indymedia, this was the scene yesterday in Portland, Oregon, as “anti-war” demonstrators burned not only a US flag, but a US soldier in effigy. Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803499/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:08:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796585/posts Ben Browning and Nik Edgell escaped with their lives when arsonists ignited a blaze at their radical bookstore. But the biggest surprise, they say, came when questioning by arson investigators turned into a confrontational political debate. Dazed after being roused from a sound sleep, scrambling frantically to save as much as possible from the flames and breathing in lots of smoke, Browning said, he was shocked when arson investigators for the Houston Fire Department became verbally aggressive, calling him and Edgell "anti-American" and "anti-federal government." The scene happened Feb. 26 at Sedition Books, a politically radical "information shop" opened last... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796585/posts#comment Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794727/posts COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Police searched homes in the Danish capital on Saturday for activists involved in street clashes that began when police evicted squatters from an abandoned building that has served as a center for anarchists, leftists and punk rockers. Two nights of violence between police and youths protesting the eviction have turned parts of the Danish capital into a battlefield strewn with burning cars and shattered glass. Two new demonstrations started Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of people marching peacefully toward Copenhagen's main square, Danish media reported. As the smoke and tear gas cleared Saturday morning, police said 188... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794727/posts#comment Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:46:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792154/posts JOSH WOLF, the blogger who has spent some six months in prison for refusing to hand over a video he took of a violent July 8, 2005, protest in the Mission District of San Francisco to a federal grand jury, is not a journalist. He is a blogger with an agenda and a camera, who sold a "selected portion" of the video of the demonstration, which left a San Francisco police officer with a fractured skull, to KRON-TV. The day after the melee, Wolf called himself on his videoblog an "artist, an activist, an anarchist and an archivist." He does... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792154/posts#comment Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:30:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785721/posts The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday ordered a judge in Eugene to resentence a radical environmentalist now serving the stiffest sentence in U.S. history for eco-sabotage. Jeffrey Luers, known in Eugene's anarchist circles as "Free," was sentenced in June 2001 to 22 years, 8 months for setting fire to three pickups and attempting to ignite a gasoline tanker in the spring of 2000. Since Judge Lyle C. Velure imposed the sentence, not one major act of eco-sabotage has occurred in Oregon, which once stood as the epicenter for a series of kindred arsons by the Earth Liberation Front and... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785721/posts#comment Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:18:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784699/posts A federal judge assigned a magistrate as a mediator Tuesday to try to resolve the case of Josh Wolf, the blogger who has been in prison nearly six months for refusing to turn over a videotape of an anarchist protest to a federal grand jury. U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who held Wolf in contempt of court in August and has rejected several defense requests to free him, said in a brief order that he was referring the case to U.S. Magistrate Joseph Spero "in the interest of reaching a resolution satisfactory to both sides.'' Alsup did not mention any... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784699/posts#comment Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780252/posts Josh Wolf, a blogger who refused to give a videotape of a San Francisco anarchist protest to a federal grand jury, achieves an unwanted distinction today, when he becomes the longest-imprisoned journalist for contempt of court in U.S. history. Wolf, 24, is spending his 169th day at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, surpassing the imprisonment of Vanessa Leggett, a Texas freelancer who defied a grand jury's subpoena in 2001 for notes from a book she was writing about a murder case. Leggett was freed when the grand jury's term expired. The grand jury in Wolf's case, which is investigating... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780252/posts#comment Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:57:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767901/posts A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected. The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and anti-discrimination measures. The writer's current passport only shows him as a man, which isn't always how he appears as he undergoes treatment. Both the Ministry of Justice and the state police agency, which issues passports in Norway, contended, though, that current regulations don't allow issuance of two passports to the same person. "A basic assumption in the issuance of a passport is... www.aftenposten.no http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767901/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:04:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1761977/posts Missouri: Police Roadblock Harassment Caught on TapeSt. Louis County, Missouri threaten to arrest a teenager for refusing to discuss his personal travel plans. A teenager harassed by police in St. Louis, Missouri caught the incident on tape. Brett Darrow, 19, had his video camera rolling last month as he drove his 1997 Maxima, minding his own business. He approached a drunk driving roadblock where he was stopped, detained and threatened with arrest when he declined to enter a conversation with a police officer about his personal travel habits. Now Darrow is considering filing suit against St. Louis County Police. "I'm... TheNewspaper.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1761977/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:08:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1736367/posts LONDON - A 22-year-old man suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker he had inserted into his buttocks, paramedics said Thursday. The incident took place Sunday, when Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes? gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in the 17th century. The man suffered burns and other unspecified internal injuries in the incident in Sunderland, 275 miles north of London. MSNBC via AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1736367/posts#comment Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:33:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706653/posts Freelance journalist Josh Wolf returned to federal prison today after refusing to produce the outtakes of video footage he shot at a violent San Francisco protest in July 2005. "Even though they're going to take me into custody, they can't silence me," Wolf, 24, said at a news conference outside the prison before turning himself in. "It's frightening. I don't feel I should have to return to prison. I don't think it was about me. I was probably the easiest target." Wolf, 24, had a deadline of 1 p.m. today to report to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin. He... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706653/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:48:06 GMT